Winding device, and method for performing a winding shaft change in a winding device

• US 20020179769A1
• Filed: 04/05/2002
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Company Maschinenfabrik
• Original Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Company Maschinenfabrik
• Inventors: Bohm, Andreas, Dreckmann, Karl
• Granted Patent: US 6,752,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 242/527.3
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 18/16 by friction roller
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 19/28 Attaching the leading end of the web to the replacement web-roll core or spindle cores, formers, supports or holders, e.g. reels, with arrangements for securing ends of material B65H75/28
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/41421 involving electrostatic means
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/41425 involving blowing means, e.g. air blast
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/41893 Cutting knife moving on circular path
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/44334 using electrostatic forces
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/4461 by blowing air towards handled material
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/5132 Bringing electrostatic charge
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/5151 transversally to feeding direction
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2301/51532 Blade cutter, e.g. single blade cutter
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2403/942 Bidirectional powered handling device
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2408/236 Pope-winders with first winding on an arc of circle and secondary winding along rails

Abstract

A method and a device for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller, a winding station assigned to the contact roller for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft and taking up the foil web, a transverse cutting device between the winding station and the take-up station for transversely cutting the foil web, wherein a charging station for creating an electrostatic charge between the winding shaft and the foil web and a blower device are assigned to the take-up station for the fresh winding shaft.

Claims

1. In a device for winding up a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft, having a rotatably driveable contact roller for feeding the foil web in a conveying device, and assigned to the contact roller a winding station for the winding shaft for winding the coil, a take-up station for receiving a fresh winding shaft used during a winding shaft change in the winding station for being exchanged with the winding shaft on which a coil of the foil web has been wound, and a transverse cutting device for transversely cutting the foil web between the winding station and the take-up station, wherein during the winding shaft change the winding shaft supporting the coil is removed out of the winding station, wherein the transverse cutting device for transversely cutting the foil web can be moved from a rest position into a working position, wherein while cutting the foil web a leading end piece of the following foil web is formed, wherein a leading end piece of the foil web thus formed can be conducted to the fresh winding shaft located in the take-up station and can be wound on the fresh winding shaft, and wherein after receiving the leading end piece of the foil web the fresh winding shaft can be transferred from the take-up station into the winding station, the improvement comprising:

when viewed in a conveying direction of the foil web (1), a charging device (6) and a blower device (7) provided downstream of the take-up station (III) receiving the fresh winding shaft (3), the leading end piece (10) of the foil web (1) formed by the transverse cutting device (4) electrostatically chargeable by the charging device (6), and an air stream generated by the blower device (7) acting on the leading end piece (10) of the foil web in an area between the contact roller (2) and the end piece of the foil web (1).

2. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the charging device (6) has a charging electrode extending transversely over an entire width of the foil web (1).

3. In the winding device in accordance with claim 2, wherein the blower device (7) comprises a multitude of blast jets (72) arranged over the entire width of the foil web (1).

4. In the winding device in accordance with claim 3, wherein during a winding shaft change at least one of the blower device and the discharge device moveable out of the rest position into an operating position and following termination of the winding shaft change moveable back into the rest position.

5. In the winding device in accordance with claim 4, wherein the contact roller (2) is perforated at a circumference of the contact roller (2) and the blower device (7) is arranged inside the contact roller (2) and has at least one blast air conduit (71) with a blowerjet (72) conducted to a circumferential area of the contact roller (2), which when viewed in the conveying direction of the foil web is located downstream of the take-up station (III), and an air flow (L) from the at least one blast air conduit (71) and the blower jet (72) exits through the perforated circumference of the contact roller (2) toward a second circumference of the fresh winding shaft (3).

6. In the winding device in accordance with claim 5, wherein the charging device (6) is charged with an electrical potential of up to 40 kV.

7. In the winding device in accordance with claim 6, wherein the contact roller (2) is selectively driven in different rotation directions.

8. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the blower device (7) comprises a multitude of blast jets (72) arranged over an entire width of the foil web (1).

9. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein during a winding shaft change at least one of the blower device and the discharge device moveable out of the rest position into an operating position and following termination of the winding shaft change moveable back into the rest position.

10. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the contact roller (2) is perforated at a circumference of the contact roller (2) and the blower device (7) is arranged inside the contact roller (2) and has at least one blast air conduit (71) with a blower jet (72) conducted to a circumferential area of the contact roller (2), which when viewed in the conveying direction of the foil web is located downstream of the take-up station (III), and an air flow (L) from the at least one blast air conduit (71) and the blower jet (72) exits through the perforated circumference of the contact roller (2) toward a second circumference of the fresh winding shaft (3).

11. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the charging device (6) is charged with an electrical potential of up to 40 kV.

12. In the winding device in accordance with claim 1, wherein the contact roller (2) is selectively driven in different rotation directions.

14. In the method in accordance with claim 13, wherein for performing a winding shaft change the transverse cutting device is moved into a position between the take-up station (III) and the winding station (II), the fresh winding shaft is brought into the take-up station (III) by the conveying device wherein the fresh winding shaft is set into a rotating movement on the contact roller prior to being deposited in the take-up station and the charging device is switched on as soon as the fresh winding shaft rests on the contact roller (2) while forming a contact gap, wherein the electrostatic charge is provided by an electrical voltage drop between the foil web and the fresh winding shaft, then the transverse cutting device is activated and the foil web is cut by the transverse cutter, the blower device is activated simultaneously with the transverse cutting of the foil web and an air flow is generated, wherein a new leading end piece of the following foil web formed in the transverse cutting device is lifted by air flow and is conducted against the fresh winding shaft by the static charge and is wound up, the winding shaft in the winding station on which the coil had been wound is removed from the winding station, and then the fresh winding shaft with the taken-up end piece of the foil web is transferred from the take-up station (III) to the winding station (II) for winding a new coil.

13. In a method for winding a continuously arriving foil web into a coil on a winding shaft and for performing a winding shaft change for exchanging the winding shaft on which the coil has been wound for a fresh winding shaft, having a winding device with a contact roller over which the foil web is supplied and is received on a winding shaft rolling off on the contact roller and is wound to form the coil, and having a transverse cutting device for the foil web for cutting the foil web while forming a leading end of the following cut-off foil web and for placing on a fresh winding shaft, and a conveying device for conveying the fresh winding shaft to be exchanged for the winding shaft on which the coil has been wound during a winding shaft change, wherein at a start of the winding shaft change the fresh winding shaft is placed on the contact roller while forming a contact gap, and the foil web is cut one of prior to passing through the contact gap and after having passed through the contact gap, and the leading end of the foil web formed during cutting is taken up by the fresh winding shaft, the improvement comprising:

the leading end (10) of the foil web being electrostatically charged prior to being taken up by the fresh winding shaft (3) and being deflected from the contact roller (2) by a blast air directed toward a circumference of the fresh winding shaft (3).